Lectures on the Harmony of the Scriptures; Designed to Reconcile Apparently Contradictory Passages - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823. Excerpt: ... LECTURE XV. GAL. ii. 16. BY THE WORKS OF THE LAW SHALL NO FLESH LIVING BE JUSTIFIED. JAMES ii. 21. WAS NOT ABRAHAM, OUR FATHER, JUSTIFIED BY WORKS? It is observed by Pascal, in his Thoughts on Religion, "Many err the more dangerously, because they take a truth as the foundation of their error. This mistake lies, not in the believing a falsehood, but in regarding one truth to the exclusion of another. "There are a great number of truths, both in faith and in morals, which seem repugnant and contrary, all of which subsist together in wonderful order. "The ground of all heresy is the rejection of some of these truths; and the source of all the objections made by heretics, is their ignorance of some of these truths. "And it usually happens, that not being able to see the connection of two seemingly opposite truths, and supposing that the admission of one necessarily includes a rejection of the other, they embrace the one and exclude the other." However inapplicable these observations may be in reference to the doctrines and liturgy of the church of Rome, they apply with peculiar force and accuracy to the two passages under consideration. In the inventions of men there may be both absurdities and contradictions; but whatever contradictions there may appear to be in the Scriptures, they are in appearance only. How absurd then it is to admit the inspiration of the Holy Volume, and yet indignantly affirm, in opposition to the words of our first text, By the works of the law shall all flesh living be justified; for, "was not Abraham our father justified by works?" But, as equally absurd is it, to admit the inspiration of the Scriptures, and affirm, in opposition to our second text, Abraham our father was not justified by works; for, "by the works of the law shall ...
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